Car-coupling



UNrTED STATES vPATENT OFFICE CHARLES W.'BOND, OF TOLEDO, O HIO.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,278, dated January22, 1884.

Application filed September 13,1853.

To all whom, it 71mg concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs W. BOND, of Toledo, in the county of Lucasand State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Oar- 'Coup1ings, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention consists of certain improvements inA car-couplings, whichwill be fully understood from the following description and claim.

-In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top view of my improvedcar-coupling conling-link, O, having a coiled spring, D, at-

(No model.)

tached tothe heel thereof, so that the coupling-link may have ahorizontal swing in passing the draft-pin E on the opposite car. Thisdraft-pin drops into a hole in the bumper-y head, and is also supportedby an arm, F, Fig. 2, considerable space being allowed between thebumper and the arm F, so that the hook C will not strike the bumper orthe arm in coupling cars of different heights. The lever G extendshorizontally to the side of the cars, and serves to lock and unlock thevcoupling-hook, t-he end of lever G being arranged to drop into thelocking-bar H, which is provided with several notches, h.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- The pivoted hook orcoupling-link O, provided with the spring D, in combination with thedraft-pinV E upon the opposite car, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth. CHAS. BOND. Witnesses:

E. W. ToLEsToN, HENRYE. AVERILL.

